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Pregnant woman detained after spouse dies from stab wounds

Friday, 13 August 2010

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Police have detained a pregnant woman to determine whether her 38-year-old reputed husband killed himself or was brutally murdered. lvin Kissoon, a 38-year-old labourer of Lot 1928 Section ‘C’ Diamond New Scheme, East Bank Demerara, died at the Diamond Diagnostic Centre at around 01:30 hrs yesterday from stab wounds he reportedly sustained at his residence. While Kissoon’s reputed wife has alleged that he committed suicide, investigators suspect that someone else may have stabbed him during an altercation. olice are also said to be puzzled over other knife injuries on the victim’s body.

Kissoon’s reputed wife, who is also 38, has told police that he went home under the influence of alcohol and threatened to kill himself, since he had lost his job. He was later seen by his reputed wife inflicting injuries to his left foot with a knife.
She reportedly attempted to take away the knife from him during which he pushed her away and stabbed himself to his chest.
He was subsequently taken to the Diamond Diagnostic Centre, where he was pronounced dead on arrival.
His reputed wife, who is several months pregnant, was detained at the Golden Grove Police Station shortly after.
Some of Kissoon’s relatives were also questioned for several hours before being released at around 19:00 hrs.
Police sources revealed that Kissoon was a heavy drinker and that his reputed wife had made several reports against him for domestic violence. He was also placed before the court for damage to property.
A female relative of the detained woman told reporters that the family had never approved of the relationship, since Kissoon drank frequently and often abused his common-law wife.
Several of Kissoon’s relatives live in an apartment in the same yard while the labourer and his spouse occupied an apartment at the back.
A sister of Kissoon’s told Kaieteur News that she was awakened early yesterday morning by “a loud noise” from the couple’s apartment. She then heard Kissoon’s spouse saying: “Alvin, doan laugh, me ain’t making joke.”
The sister said she went back to sleep, but was awakened shortly after by the sound of screams from the couple’s apartment.
According to the woman, her brother had taken ill last month and they assumed that he had suffered a relapse.
Kissoon’s sister said she entered the couple’s apartment and saw her brother slumped in a chair with a vest wrapped around his upper body.
“I asked what happen and she say ‘he stab heself, go and get a taxi.’”
She said that a taxi arrived shortly after and took her brother to the Diamond Diagnostic Centre. According to the woman, family members had no idea that he was seriously injured, and therefore headed back home.
“We were saying that only the other day he get a job and now he get injured. Then I heard the phone ring and my mother say ‘Alvin dead?’”
The woman confirmed that Kissoon and his reputed wife had domestic problems and that he was a heavy drinker. She declined to comment on whether her brother might have been the victim of foul play.
Relatives confirmed that he had last worked as a labourer at the sites in Diamond New Scheme where three commercial banks are being constructed.
Alvin Kissoon is survived by his parents, siblings, and two children from a previous relationship.
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